That's the only way to describe it, really. If our boyfriend fantasies were a second prostate, this cute, unassuming muscle hunk in the black rectangle frame glasses would be hitting it with precision accuracy.
Zack is basically our dream come true. With his sort of goofy good looks, comically deep voice, unpretentious manner and those big black glasses, he comes across like your nerdiest best bud from high school. Zack is the kind of guy who will spend hours passionately and intelligently arguing about foreign policy during the Nixon administration, only to cower behind you feeling hopelessly awkward at any sort of social engagement. He's the sort of guy who tortures himself over whether to finish the website he's being handsomely paid to build or stay in bed and fuck you silly, but always chooses the latter. This is how we like to imagine him, anyway. It only helps that that face of his screwed onto an unbelievably gorgeous, muscular body.
We used to have our problems with the porno trope of the sexy nerd. It struck us as somehow unfair that you could take a hunky gay pornstar—a man so sexy that people literally pay to see him naked—slap a pair of glasses on him, and associate him with that noble race of men and women who's endearing social ineptitude is only outshone by their smarty-pants-ness. Thanks to Zack, though, we're more or less over it. After all, doesn't everyone want a sexy nerd all for themselves? A geeky, lovable fool who looks like a total schlub when he's all dressed up, but who has this incredible body hidden underneath it all? No? Is it just us?
· Zack Returns – Solo (southernstrokes.com)